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the nutrients lost with the bran.


Breakfast Cereals


Apart from breads and pastries, the most
common form in which Americans consume
grain is probably the breakfast cereal. There
are two basic types of breakfast cereals: hot,
which require cooking, and ready-to-eat,
which are eaten as is, often with some cold
milk.


The anatomy of a wheat kernel. It’s a
miniature but complete fruit, with a dry rather
than fleshy ovary wall. The large mass of
endosperm cells stores food to nourish the
early growth of the embryo or “germ.”
Hot Cereals Hot cereals have been eaten

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